idiom(plus was formed in April 2002 to help academic and scientific organisations to grow and become more commercial in their practice and outlook.

Dr Kevan Williams PhD MBA MSc CChem MRSC
Partner

kevan@idiomplus.com

Kevan has been both research scientist and commercial manager and has worked in the public, private and higher education sectors including very large very cautious organisations and very small but fast growing organisations.  Together this has given him great insight into how organisations and markets work.  His scientific career included environmental and food contamination and he has over 12 years of experience in marketing and selling R&D and analytical services in the UK and continental Europe. He is a trained facilitator (including iLab facilitation) and is Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.  He also teaches and supervises research in strategy and marketing at Masters degree level in the Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia.

Mrs Elizabeth Williams
Partner

liz@idiomplus.com

Elizabeth is a business advisor and mentor in addition to being the business manager for idiom(plus providing contact and support for our clients particularly in universities and local authorities.  Elizabeth also provides marketing support activities to our clients.  Before starting this business Elizabeth worked in the insurance industry, was a scientific proof-reader and has extensive experience in customer services.

Mr Matthew Last BA Hons MBA DipM
Executive Consultant

matthew@idiomplus.com

Matthew qualified as an historian before spending 10 years in sales and marketing management in the UK and continental Europe. Matthew specializes in coaching senior staff in the public sector and in Universities and is in demand as a facilitator. Previously he has developed a number of training courses around the area of commercial activities in the public sector and has been a non-executive director of four companies. He is an NLP Master Practitioner.